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Pencil Drawing Techniques by David Lewis
Category: Art and Design
Here is a really good book for the artist who wants to develop his or her pencil drawing abilities, whether it's to improve your preliminary sketch work, or to create beautiful pencil drawings complete in their own right. Pencil Drawing Techniques brings together six of today's best artists, all of whom ...Show more
Philosophical Manuscripts by David Lewis; Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Editor); Fraser Macbride (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
David Lewis (1941-2001) was a celebrated and influential figure in analytic philosophy. When Lewis died, he left behind a large body of unpublished notes, manuscripts, and letters. This volume contains two longer manuscripts which Lewis had originally intended to turn into books, and thirty-one shorter ...Show more
SPLIT SECOND MP3 by Damian Lewis (Read by); David Baldacci; Scott Brick (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: King and Maxwell Ser.
When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot?Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her c ...Show more
The Enemy - A Review of Art and Literature by Wyndham Lewis; David P. Corbett (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Enemy Ser.
The Healing Arts - The Arts Project at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital by J. Scott; Richard Cork; Zoe Penn; Andrew Hall; Anouk Mercier; David Ferry; Grace Saull; Lewis Khan
Category: Art Instructional
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity, CW+, have been pioneers at the intersection of art and healthcare for more than twenty-five years. By bringing music, performance, and the visual arts into the healthcare setting, they have created an extraordinary patient environment and transformed the ...Show more
The Improbable Wendell Willkie - The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis
Category: Politics
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and former Democrat who could have saved America's sclerotic political system. Although Wendell Lewis Willkie would lose to FDR, acclaimed biographer David Levering Lewis ...Show more
The Man Who Invented Hitler by David Lewis
Category: History
The incredible story of the man who transformed Hitler from an insignificant no-hoper into the world's most devastating tyrant. Throughout the First World War, Hitler never rose above the rank of lance corporal, and beforehand had been an impoverished drifter. Yet within a few months of the end of th ...Show more
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams
Category: Art
Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira, visitors are confronted with symbols, patterns, and depictions of bison, woolly mammoths, ibexes, and other animals. Since its discovery, cave art has provoked great curiosity about why it a ...Show more
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams
Category: Design | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of such caves as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the atavistic mind? How did ...Show more
The Rough Guide to China (3rd ed, 2003) by David Leffman, Simon Lewis & Jeremy Atiyah (updated by Mike Meyer & Susie Lunt)
Category: Travel
The Rough Guide to China is the definitive handbook to this vast and extraordinary country. Features include: Full-colour section introducing China's highlights Lively coverage of the entire country, from booming Beijing and Shanghai to the ethnic-minority regions of the southwest and the oasi ...Show more
The Souls of Black Folk - Centennial Edition by W. E. B. Du Bois; David L. Lewis (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the ...Show more
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove, Michael Lewis
Category: History
The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created. Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account ...Show more